Just after midnight on Monday, the wife of outspoken rapper Kanye West was tied up by armed robbers inside her private Paris residence, who stole some £8.5m worth of jewellery and two mobile phones.
But whilst the brutal assault sparked global outrage, with many concerned for the fashionista’s well-being, Mathieu Kassovitz, an award-winning French actor and film director, congratulated the masked men for their successful heist via his twitter account.
Mr Kassovitz, who played Napoléon Bonaparte in the BBC’s lavish on-screen adaptation of the Russian novel, War and Peace, released a series... read more

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